Removable school and church seat



.(No Model.)

S. ROUSH.

REMOVABLE 0011001. AND CHURCH SEA No 311,854.

vPatented Feb. 3,1885.

W w E M 0 T Nrrnn STATES PATENT Fries.

SAMUEL ROUSH, OF VVILMOT, INDIANA.

REMOVABLE SCHOOL AND CHURCH SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.311,85 i, dated February 3, 1885,

Application filed December 11, 1583. (No model.)

To (all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL ROUSl-I, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of VVilmot, in the county of Noble and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Removable School-Seats, Church-Seats, &c.; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,which will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a church-settee of my improved construction. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same ona vertical plane. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-sec tional view through line x a; in Fig. 2, and Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views of the locks for fastening the removable body of the settee to its stationary base.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the base of my improved settee, which I prefer to make of malleable iron or castiron, and which is fastened permanently in the floor by means of screws, bolts, or any other suitable fastenings. This base has two apertures, B and 0, adapted to receive and interlock with the legs of the settee. Thelat ter consists of the seat D,which may be constructed with a back, if desired, and is provided with the legs or supports E and F, one at each end. One of these legs (E in the drawings) is made perfectly solid, and is provided at its lower end with a rigid lip or catch, G, adapted to engage with the top of the base, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The other leg, F, is provided with a vertical recess or socket, K, extending from its lower end upward, and within this recess is pivotally secured by its upper end the latch H, provided at its lower end, which extends below the re duced or tenoned lower end of the leg F,with a projecting lip, h, and having a knob, J,and

'will be forced back into its recess K, so as to release or disengage its projecting lip h from the bottom of the base, in orderto permit the settee to be removed from the base.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the advantages of this construction will readily be understood without requiring further explanation.

I am well aware that it is not new, broadly, to construct a removable bench or settee which may be removed from its stationary base when desired; and I do not, therefore, claim such construction, broadly; but

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of'the United States,

As an improvement in school-furniture,the combination, with a metallic base secured permanently to the floor, and having openings or apertures at or near its ends, of a detachable seat or scttee having at one end a leg provided at its lower end with a catch adapted to enter and engage one of the openings in the fixed base, and having at the other end of such seat a socketed leg provided with a pivoted spring-latch in such socket adapted to engage the other of the said openings, where by the said seat or settee may be retained securely in position, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL ROUSH.

\Vitnesses:

J AMES T. CUNNINGHAM, W. W. BEsr. 

